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"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
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Elena Ferrante inaugura con este libro una tetralogía deslumbrante que tiene como telón de fondo la ciudad de Nápoles a mediados del siglo pasado y como protagonistas a Lenù y Lila, dos jóvenes mujeres que están aprendiendo a gobernar su vida en un entorno donde la astucia, antes que la inteligencia, es el ingrediente de todas las salsas. La relación a menudo tempestuosa entre Lila y Lenù viene acompañada de un coro de voces que dan cuerpo...
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Izdatel'stvo AST
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2020.
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Russian
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"Lzhivaia vzroslaia zhizn' - eto zakhvatyvaiushchiĭ, psikhologicheski tonkiĭ i tochnyĭ roman o tom, kak nelegko vzroslet'. ́Glavnoĭ geroine, ona zhe rasskazchitsa, na samom poroge iunosti prikhoditsia uznat' mnozhestvo semeĭnykh taĭn, spravitsia s gruzom kotorykh bylo by trudno liubomu vzroslomu. Predatel'stvo blizkikh, nenavist' i zlobnye peresudy, perekhodiashchaia iz ruk v ruki dragotsennost', odnovremenno ob"ediniajushchaia i seiushchaia...
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Collection Folio volume 6052
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Gallimard
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[2014]
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Français
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Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.
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Large Print Press
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2016, ©2013
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Overview: The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other....
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[publisher not identified]
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[between 2012 and 2023]
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Russian
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Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two...
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Amica geniale volume 3
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Sindbad
Pub. Date
2020.
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Russian
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Friends Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and has published a successful novel. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. Afloat on the sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s, they are still...
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Gallimard
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2020.
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Français
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"Deux ans avant qu'il ne quitte la maison, mon père dit à ma mère que j'étais très laide." Giovanna, fi lle unique d'un couple de professeurs, vit une enfance heureuse dans les hauteurs de Naples. L'année de ses douze ans, elle surprend une conversation dans laquelle son père la compare à Vittoria, une tante à la réputation maléfi que. Bouleversée par ce rapprochement aussi dévalorisant qu'inattendu, Giovanna va chercher à en savoir...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Nápoles, en la actualidad: cuando la joven Giovanna insiste en conocer a la hermana de su padre, personaje misteriosamente borrado de las conversaciones y fotografías familiares, desencadena sin saberlo el desmoronamiento de su familia intelectual y burguesa, perfecta solo en apariencia. Una historia sobre el descubrimiento de las mentiras de los adultos, del amor y del sexo.
Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear...
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To volume 132
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Da kuai wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2022.
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中文
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